Senior Property Underwriter

DGA; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join DGA as a market facing underwriter in Toronto, where you'll foster broker relationships and manage a profitable property portfolio. This role requires strong analytical and decision-making skills, a CIP designation, and a passion for driving innovative underwriting solutions in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of underwriting or broking experience within Property.
• Completed or pursuing CIP designation required.
• Strong business acumen and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead innovation and drive change in underwriting processes.
• Establish trusting relationships with brokers and customers.
• Utilize modern online underwriting tools and perform risk analysis.

Skills

Analytical skills

Decision-making skills

Negotiation skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Education

CIP designation

Post-secondary education

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Working within the Ontario Region General Property team in Toronto, the role of a market facing underwriter is to establish and foster broker and customer relationships while underwriting a profitable renewal portfolio of complex, l arge property customers with revenues between above $300M

Supported by a dedicated local team of Underwriting Assistants, Risk Engineers, International Service Specialists and an industry leading claims team, this is your opportunity to join a growing and highly successful organization.

Job Accountabilities

• As a customer led organization, you must lead innovation and drive change by challenging the status quo
• Establish trusting relationships with brokers and customers in varying industry segments
• Build a pipeline of new business targets with assigned brokers.
• Strong decision-making skills and the ability to bring creativity to underwriting risks
• Highly analytical and willing to further develop in technical risk areas
• Interpretation of risk engineering reports and risk recommendations issued
• Ability to utilize modern online underwriting tools, rating and modelling.
• Global CAT modelling and accumulation management
• International deal and structure management
• Primary / Excess layering
• Attention to detail with contract certainty on quotes and wordings issued.
• Manuscript and non-standard wording reviews in line with the companyframework.
• Thorough documentation and completion of files, narratives, and systems
• Understanding of regional / local insurance markets and competitor landscape
• Strong organizational, deal management and negotiation skills
• Highly collaborative and proactively drive involvement of functional areas in the underwriting process, including risk engineering, claims, actuarial, finance, distribution and other lines of business.

Job Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of demonstrated underwriting or broking experience within Property
• Completed or pursuing CIP designation
• Post-secondary education or equivalent industry training and experience
• Strong business acumen and communication skills.
• Intermediate to Advances Microsoft Office skills

DGA Careers has been proudly serving the Canadian insurance industry for over 30 years, specializing in providing insurance recruiting services to major insurers, insurance brokerage firms and independent adjusting firms. With offices in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Edmonton, and Calgary, DGA is well positioned to conduct searches with a national scope. Our unrivalled professional network across Canada provides us with the ability to reach vital key influencers and passive candidates nationally.

Information

• City : Toronto
• Job Type : Full-Time
• Education : CIP, CIP Partial Completion, CRM
• Minimum experience required : 5 to 6 Years